Don’t Be A Hungry Ghost
The choice between tourist and traveler
5 min readSep 28, 2020
“What if we only bought handmade things?” That was a question that my friend asked me back in 2002 and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
The colonial mindset quickly reduces everything to a set of commodities. Commodification replaces the handmade with the machine made — soul for cheapness.
